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by Ray Youssef, Co-Founder & CEO of Paxful Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as we know it was born from Satoshi Nakamoto’s dream of creating a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. The white paper proposed a system that would replace the need for central authorities like banks and...

by Dylan Buckley The inception of Bitcoin and the many projects that preceded this initial development gave rise to a whole new market for investors to take advantage of. Those who truly believed in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies even before it started to see massive gains in value...

by Matthew Kohen and Justin Wales A recent Florida Third District Court of Appeal opinion may affect how individuals and businesses utilize bitcoin and other virtual currencies in the state of Florida. In Florida v. Espinoza, Case No. 3D16-1860, the State’s intermediary appellate...

by Prashanth Swaminathan, CEO of XDAT.io and Advisor to Eleven01 Many people remain surprisingly optimistic about the future of cryptocurrencies despite the harrowing year that ushered in crypto winter. After all, the only way to accept it is to convince ourselves that it had to...

by Catherine Frankum Blockchain and Bitcoin. These two words have been linked closely together since their joint creation in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Still to this day people confuse them as being the same. However, since 2014, Blockchain has developed into a technology that can...

January 12, 2019 marked the 10th anniversary of the very first bitcoin transaction. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto sent 10 bitcoins to a U.S. software engineer named Hal Finney (who some believe may have been one and the same) on January 12, 2009. A number of digital currency...

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based digital currency exchange Shakepay announced in a press release it sent to CoinReport a new feature called Shakepay Change, which allows for Canadians, after signing up on the exchange’s website, to buy bitcoin by automatically rounding up their...

On the first-ever World Crypto Con’s final day earlier this month, Civic.com co-founder and CEO Vinny Lingham betted Standpoint Research founder and director Ronnie Moas $20,000 that bitcoin’s price will not hit $28,000 on a “reputable exchange” by the time 2019 ends. The bet’s...

U.K.-headquartered global training and qualifications provider The Knowledge Academy has analyzed findings from YouGov, which surveyed 1,135 American adults to see how confident they are with the definitions of a range of financial words and phrases, and found, among other...